The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-12-08
DAKOTA NEWS NOTES.


Aboard Of trade has been organized
at Huron with w. T.. Love as presi.
dents
A writer in Bradstreet's calls atten-
ton to the stupendous fact tina
when one.third of the-area Of Dakota
Is used Tor wheat-growing, the crop,
with q smaller average yield per acre
than the territory has aver known,
will be 800, OOO, 900 or 37O, 900, 900
bushels a year.
The secretary of the interior has re-
yersed the decision Of the commissions
er OF the general land Office in the case
OF Alvina Yeutsch VS.. Alzina Ryan,
involving land in the WATERFOWL
(Dak.) district. This gives Miss
Yertsch, who entered the land and
made impt ovements, authority to
take the land.
The event of the season at Bis
marck. was the Rooster" banquet
at the Sheridan house. About one
hundred citizens, men only, were pres
emit. Numerous toasts were respond
ed to and the menu was elaborate.
Judge Trip has rendered a iudg.
ment at $3,4O0 for the plaintiff in the
long-drawn-out partnership litigation
between O. R.. Belts and, George E.
Letcher of Mitchell, formerly in hard
ware business.
Aparty Of surveyors of the Manito-
ba road is now running a line from
Halsted, Mimi, the present terminus
Of the Moorhead & Northern branch,
to Caledonia and thence westward.
Several branches of Lutherans in
the neighborhood of Brcokings are
trying to effect a union OF sentiment
as we'll as of church service.
1t is generally understood that the
South Dakota conference has decided
to- locate their seminary at Brookings,
and the citizens are prepared to well
come that institution in a substan.
tial manner. r~5 H. -
The Farmers Mutual Protective
association mailed from Planking.
ton over 1000 drafts, covering all
parts of Dakota, in payment for hail
losses for this year. The total aggre.
gate of these drafts is $4,000.
This association will make a further
payment ofsover $4,000 early this
month.
The Prohibitionists have called a
county convention in Huron, for Dec.
13 to arrange for enforcing the local
option law after Dec. 81. The Pro-
hlbition alliance will Immediately is
sue a call for a South Dakota Prohibit
ton conference to be held at Huron
Dec. Is for the purpose of organizing
Tor next years campaign.
The "snap''' OF the last of Novem-
ber was the coldest ever recorded for
that month.
MIR. John Gowan and daughter were
asphyxiated by coal gas at Huron.
Mr.. Gowan was dead when found and
the daughter cannot recover.
P: D. Lyon, editor and proprietor
OF Public Opinion, a weekly newspa-
per published in WATERFOWL, had a
suit fol criminal libel brought against
him by George E. Taylor. The at
tack, when published, caused quite a
t1utter in society circles, as Taylor
was employed three years ago as clerk
in the United States land Office at
Watertown and moved IN the best
circles, but like. other things excite
ment had about died out, when Tay.
lor arrived from Boston and at once
commenced action. ).
The Ward county election case,
which arc from throwing out the
vote of Minot precinct in the recent
election upon certain afidavits alleg-
ing illegal votes were cast. il before
Judge Francis on application OF John
B.. Welcome of Minot for a writ of
mandamus compelling the canvassing
board to reassemble and canvass
SNSH Vo~Os II N0SC HAS ItbuSCu COIl.
siderable interest from the fact that
the throwing out of the Minot vote
gave a majority in the county for pro-,
hibition, while otherwise license would
have prevailed by $50 majority.
At a meeting OF the Dakota Stock
Breeders Association at Jamestown,
officers were elected as follows: Pres
G, ], Alloway, Grand Forks;
vice president. F. G. Haggerty, Aber-
deem; secretary, Oscar p. Kemp,
Watertown; treasurer. 40. Johnson,
Montrose; directors to fill expired
terms, !. C. Wade, Jamestown, and
Thomas David, Mitchell. Watertown
was elected as the place for the next
meeting.
Cars Run by Electricity.
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